Adam "Hans" Zwakenberg

My girlfriend made this! She can make pretty much anything into an IRL sculpture or plushy! She is instagram.com/sculptara on Instagram

🧵1/4 My SimCity 2000 PC Big Box done. I normally like to make it my own but there is something special about the OG box. I did add a few touches. I recreated the box almost 1:1 from really good scans from bigboxdb.com

Alright alright I'm moving over to BlueSky sheesh bsky.app/profile/adamzw… I really haven't checked Twitter in years unless I'm @'d, this place became way less fun years before what happened. I think BlueSky has some fun/QOL things that Twitter never had to begin with. C u there!

My little big box site now has over 300 game boxes scanned/documented from me and community contributions! bigboxdb.com

Oh we have a Discord too if you want to talk about old PC games or contribute content discord.com/invite/CWXbgxC…

I set up a BlueSky for my BigBoxDB site here bsky.app/profile/bigbox… if you want to keep up with stuff!

Hey my metadata shows up in Twitter, neat

Testing bigboxdb.com/game/dig-the-u…

@thoughtrise Hey man its all because of you hahaha, I've been scanning games in silence and now I have a drive if people are actually looking :D

@AdamZwakk this brings me joy!! <3

holy hell this website has 3D rotatable renders of a ton of old PC game "big boxes" so fkn cool bigboxdb.com

@thoughtrise Thanks again for the re-shoutout! I've already gotten emails from others willing to contribute their own scans so the dream is becoming a thing!

@AdamZwakk yo! I checked your website for your twitter username to link you but it wasn't listed - so glad you found this and i can say thank you for your massive effort toward historical preservation <3 i see i'm not the only one your site brought a lot of joy 🥹💖

who knew how many of you were as big of dorks as i am 😉 @AdamZwakk made this, you should check out his site! he also has videos on the making of this database, and is open-sourcing the code soon 🙏 all hail adam 🙌

@BuddyGames105 @thoughtrise Other boxes which have gatefold do the same!

@thoughtrise What's cool as well is that if you double click on the trapezoid boxes, they fold open to reveal more!

@sus_admin @thoughtrise Working on that, the way CSS handles the Z axis is... tricky. Once that's solved I might just deprecate that version

@thoughtrise there is an easy to miss "3D rendered" option too which makes the boxes more clear to read bigboxdb.com/3dshelf/game/q…

@ninehydras @thoughtrise Thanks! I have tons more to scan through manually still D:

@EonNomad @thoughtrise I'm open sourcing out the code soon and you could adapt pretty easily to any box type. Thankfully Nintendo boxes are pretty uniform per platform!

@thoughtrise Oh yeah, very cool! Would love to see GBA boxes

@TheFantasticPau @thoughtrise I was going to open source the code soon, it would be pretty simple to adapt to anything really if you had the dimensions and things were mostly 'box like'

@thoughtrise Need a site like this for Boardgame Boxes.

@Pentagear @thoughtrise Thanks! I'm now behind @Cloudflare and upgraded server btw!

@AdamZwakk @thoughtrise Hey, man, congrats on the success! As a box collector, this truly is a welcomed dose of quality nostalgia.

@willkillforexp Thatsa-nice-a donut

Yeah sorry I can’t come into work, I’m rotating King’s Quest VI

@bahroomn thanks so much!

this is the coolest thing I've ever seen, the cover open of Alice almost made me tear up, raw unfiltered nostalgia